PESHAWAR, March 31: The city district council's members have urged the NWFP governor to properly delineate Peshawar district's boundaries from the adjacent Mohmand Agency to check the movement of outlaws in the area.
Two members of the council, Ibadetullah and Malik Noushad, through a joint resolution drew the chair's attention towards lawlessness in those parts of the district, which were detached from the Mohmand region a few years back.
Convener Dr Iqbal Khalil presided over the proceedings here on Wednesday. The movers said that the police and other law enforcement agencies had failed to check smugglers, carjackers and drug traffickers in areas close to the Mohmand region.
They demanded that the provincial government should increase the strength of the police and the Frontier Constabulary to eradicate anti-social elements from the newly merged areas.
Other members of the council supported the resolution and asked the district nazim to take up matter with the NWFP chief minister and the governor. They were of the view that the governor, who performs as an agent to the president for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, should properly demarcate border between the district and the tribal territory.
The councillors said that if the government could not restore law and order situation, then remerged those areas with the tribal region. The council would continue debate on the resolution on Thursday.
Earlier, woman councillor Shamim Qaiser, on a point of order, expressed concern on baring women from contesting and participating in the local government by-elections in various districts of the province.
She said that the Election Commission of Pakistan should again announce schedule for by-polls to fill the vacant seats reserved for women. She said that the large number of women's vacant seats were in negation to the principle of 33 per cent seats reserved for women by the government in the devolution plan.
